Re: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?

[endre enyedy <e_enyedy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:15 AM 5/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>The past two employers had me sign a contract stating that anything I
created was the property of the employer.  In fact, I was 'asked' not to
publish an article because they were afraid I'd give away some of 'my' code.
>- Jo Ann

I see it this way:

If you are a salaried employee,  you are being paid to produce the
employer's code;

If you are "freelancing" the code is your property, now:

we all have our "coding technique" or "style" or whatever else it might be
called,
and it is ours, it is our way of doing things.

EndreE

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